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September 2009

Over the last ten months, Facebook Connect has flourished as a tool to not only minimize login and sign-up minutiae, but to allow developers and content creators to add a social link to their sites and services. Yesterday, Facebook introduced Transla...

Samir Balwani is an emerging technology strategist at Morpheus Media, a firm specializing in Social Marketing, SEM, and SEO. You can follow him on Twitter @samirbalwani and get his newsletter. Social media marketing and the businesses that utilize it...

At just 12% of the total advertising market in the United States, online ads still have a ways to go before surpassing the amount spent on television. In the United Kingdom, however, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is reporting that online adve...

When you want to do a one-on-one video chat with someone else, what do you use? The first thing that probably comes to mind is Skype. While Skype is a great service, it isn't practical for when you just want to get a video chat going (both sides must...

Late last night Facebook announced the release of their Translations for Facebook Connect product, and it's hard not to read today's Google translation announcement as a "don't forget about us too" move. This is even more true when looking at the com...

Passionate fans go out of their way to share their enthusiasm with the world, sometimes even going so far as to alter their Twitter avatars to take on the likeness of or support their favorite artist, sports team, or social media site. We've already ...

We're just a few hours away from the launch of Google Wave. Later tonight, a flood of invites for Google Wave will permeate the web, and around 100,000 early adopters will become part of Google's real-time communication tool. Heck, Wave is so hot rig...

One of the challenges that new Twitter users face is finding interesting users to follow. There are several third-party tools to help you do it (like Lunch and TweepML), but we'd love for Twitter lists to come from the source — Twitter itself. And so...

Last week, Google launched Place Pages, their attempt to become a top destination for finding info on local restaurants and businesses by aggregating reviews, details, photos, and maps and placing them on pages separate from a Google Map. At the time...

We wrote recently that we felt the rumoured-but-strongly-expected Apple Tablet would be going after the digital publishing market to compete head-to-head with the Amazon Kindle and other e-ink digital book readers. Recently, Gizmodo dug up a few cont...

As more and more developers start to enter the mobile application space -- be it for the iPhone, Android, the BlackBerry, the Palm Pre, or any of the others -- standing out in a crowded field of applications becomes more and more important. For many ...

One of the most anticipated web apps of the year has just made its debut. Yes, that's right: Google Wave has officially launched, as the flood of invites has begun. Be patient though: invites are not being sent out all at once. While a select group o...

Yes, it's possible that The Today Show, The Office, and Saturday Night Live, along with Universal Studios and many popular TV channels, could be owned by the world's largest cable television and Internet provider. According to The Wrap, Comcast is cu...

Not long ago, we broke the news that Google has started sending invites for Google Wave. The run-up to the launch of Google's real-time communication tool has dominated both social media and mainstream media chatter for the last few days. Twitter use...

We all know that Twitter's become one of the most powerful communication tools on the web. But even 140 characters can be too long and difficult for some people. That's why we've covered other "alternatives" to Twitter, such as the 26-character Flutt...

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